Just curious if you are playing a nation like Eriu with no death magic how you deal with the BF spell Darkness?
I am guessing the normal way is to summon undead or other creatures that are not impacted by it (is that true?)but are there any other effective counters?

Thanks.

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Other than that, undead and demons are indeed unaffected and can help you out. Some other summons like trolls have at least partial darkvision. Otherwise any chaff (or any type of unit really) preferably buffed with army of gold/lead that can survive for long enough without relying on it's defense, while your mages cast battlefield-damage spells, or just large area evocation where their precision isn't that important, can do the trick.

IF the opponent has strong high level battlefield spells you will loose if you don't have any.

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It would make Astral magic even more powerful than it is. Worse, it would give an effective counter to nearly any strategy that you could develop with battlefield enchantments. It would be a lot better if there were situational counters.

If Death mages can cast Darkness, maybe Fire or Air or Astral mages should be able to cast Light, that can affect Darkvision and/or undead units, or 'dispel' darkness. Have a light/darkness level on the battlefield, the same as temperature. Maybe tied in with Death/Growth scales?

Both icons appear in the right hand corner.
Units do not experience defense/attack penalties.
Units get blinded. (There appears to be a MR check, but that may be just luck
or the effects of regeneration)

You can counter Darkness by killing the caster, if he has not fled the battle. If you have an E bless, you should have access to Troll Kings for Earthquakes. The trolls have partial DV too. If you can get blood stones, then a Bean with E1 and boots and the stone can cast Rain of Stones too (Mistform first). The Darkness caster is likely to cast Darkness in any assassination attempts. So Earth Attack his army, and hope you nail whoever is the Darkness caster, since he'll likely pass out from casting Darkness in the assassination.

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